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The Best of Bob Dylan

February 27th, 2007 @ 8:26 am PST

How’s this for an impossible task? Last night my girlfriend asked me to make her a Bob Dylan mix CD. I have exactly 100 Dylan songs in my iTunes library, and one can only fit about 73 minutes of music on a standard audio CD. Deciding which tracks to include has proven to be a monumental task. I finally chose the following seventeen, but it wasn’t easy.

  1. It Ain’t Me, Babe
    It’s hard to argue against including this one. It’s such a sad song, but so beautiful.
  2. Positively 4th Street
    The bitter side of Bob.
  3. Jet Pilot
    It’s The Crying Game, in 49 seconds of verse.
  4. I Want You
    One of the best love songs ever written …
  5. Subterranean Homesick Blues
    First and foremost, the man is a poet. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
  6. Tombstone Blues
    This is the closest Bob comes to punk rock, and it includes my all-time favorite line in any song, ever: “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.”
  7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
    Quite likely the best blues song ever recorded.
  8. Highway 61 Revisited
    God layeth down the smack.
  9. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
    In other words, I really, really want to have sex with you.
  10. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
    These days there just aren’t any storytellers in modern music. This is such a great story.
  11. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
    Girls. Can’t live without ’em; can’t get ’em to stop buying ridiculous fashion.
  12. Just Like a Woman
    Another excellent love song … She breaks just like a little girl.
  13. Temporary Like Achilles
    Love hurts sometimes, no?
  14. Tangled Up in Blue
    Here’s another good story. It’s a five-act play in five minutes.
  15. From a Buick 6
    She walks like Bo Diddley and she don’t need no crutch. Now, who writes lyrics like that any more?
  16. Ballad of a Thin Man
    This is what you get when you give a genius poet a lot of drugs, a guitar, and the freedom to say whatever he wants. Do you dig it, Mr. Jones?
  17. Shelter From The Storm
    This is the only track that she specifically requested. It’s in Jerry Maguire, one of our favorite movies, and I think it’s his best love song.

What do you think? Are there any you think I missed? Are there any you think are more deserving to be on a Dylan Top Ten list?

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Responses to “The Best of Bob Dylan”

  1. February 27th, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
    lloyd griffiths

    spanish harlem incident. and your flashing diamond teath.

  2. March 6th, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
    Brant Cotton

    three – It’s all over now baby Blue ( One the eary ones Dylan is most proud of just watch the DVD “Don’t Look Back”), Don’t Think Twice(Great sardonic break-up Tune)and the obviuos choice “Like a Rolling Stone”(way ahead of it’s time ..1965. First song he went electric with and the One of the most lyricallycolorful songs of all time.

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